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Soho Press
May 2013
On Sale: May 1, 2013
368 pages
ISBN: 161695227X
EAN: 9781616952273
Kindle: B008ADEHVW
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Mystery Historical
The third book in the critically acclaimed series set in
Classical Athens, featuring the historically
inspired amateur detective
Nicolaos.
It is the Olympics of 460 BC.
Nico's best friend, Timodemus, is a competitor in the
pankration, the deadly martial art of ancient Greece.
Timo is hot favorite to win. His only serious rival
is Arakos from Sparta. When Arakos is found beaten
to death, it is obvious Timodemus must be the killer. Who
else could have killed the second-best fighter in all Hellas
but the very best? The Judges of the Games sentence
Timodemus to be executed in four days' time, as soon as the
Sacred Games have finished.
Complicating
everything is the fact that Athens and Sparta are already at
each other's throats, in the opening stages of a power
struggle for control of Hellas. If an Athenian is found to
have cheated at the Games by murdering a Spartan, it will be
everything the hawks in Sparta need to declare open war the
moment the Sacred Truce is over. And that's a war Athens
cannot hope to win.
Nico and his partner in
sleuthing, the annoyingly clever priestess Diotima, have
four days to save their friend and avert a war that would
tear their world apart.
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